Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-03-04
NATURAL GAS.

Mr., Fred DeGrief run down to Lima
Wednesday evening and reports that n
number of the oil wells that "come in"
first are now 'going out"
A petition asking the Legislature to
authorize the Board of Education,
School District No /, Perrysburg, to
proceed TO sink another gas well, is re-
ceiving quite number Of names at the
postoliice.
"The possibilities of Wood county are
boundless. With a magnificent timber
growth and soil of inexhaustibc rich
ness as surface facts, and lakes of oil
and gas underneath, who can estimate
its future 2"-Ioledo Bee,
As The Toledo Gas & Oil Development
e. Experiment Company have large
capital and experience at their back,
and have decided to sink twenty test
wells in Wood and Lucas counties not
very far distant from Toledo, would it
not be well for our people ON the north
ern dip of the Trenton lin mestone to wait
and watch little while!
BY reading the Bowling Green and
| Findlay papers for the past few weeks,
it was no small matter to decide which
of the towns had secured the Canastota
Glass Works Co., but dispatches from
the officers of the company to the au-
thorities in Bowling Green on Monday
settles the question in favor of Bowling
Green. The contract was ratified by
the contractors on that day. When
they all get to living in glass houses
over there what good town it will be
to throw stones at.
1t may not be a pleasant thing to
contemplate, but 80 cents is the present
price for oil throughout the Northwes-
tern Ohio field. Producers operating in
this part of the territory can congratu.
late themselves on being ahead of other
p, ITS, owing to the larger average ca
pacity of their wheels, with possibly
the exception of the wells in the imme.
date neighborhood of the Fulton well,
in Wood county. The aggregate runs
for the month nearly reached 200, 900
barrels,-Lma Republican.
The Perrysburg gas well is regarded
as growing stronger. When properly
confined for "a hours or longer it blows
off like steam engine. 1t is now
believed with the accumulations OF
day it would furnish three or four
lamps all night. The salt water theory
is eliminating into proper solution,
but the amount of dynamite used in
shooting the well is an unsolved mys-
terry. 1t is believed by many that the
well was not properly shot.
The Bowling Green Gazette very prop
erly wants to know if Wood and Lucas
counties or the Natural Gas Co. are to
stand the expense of the several moet.
ings of the county joint board of Com
missiouers to decide upon the question
of allowing the Gas Co. tc lay mains
across the Maumee bridge. If, as the
Prosecuting Attorneys OF the two coun-
ties have decided, that the Commission.
ers have no rights to grant in such mat
ters-which right they have granted
then the counties will become interest.
edly responsible. 1t would be no more
trouble to start joint lawsuit than il
has been in the past to find petitioner
for ditch under the one-man ditch
law.
A large number of derricks are now
up in Henry township and number oi
wells are expected in daily. The grea
gusher No. 2, mentioned in last week.
JOURNAL, is still flowing, but not regu
lar, gushing at intervals. Its flow i
estimated all the way from 75 to 5000
barrels per day. The owners of this
well are Messrs. Royce Smith 6 Coon, OF
Bowling Green, and about a doZel mem
bcrs of Toledo Produce Exchange. Al
excursion party from Toledo and Bowl
ing Green visited this well on Saturday
and the proprietors are.greatly elatet
over the promise of this well. The Da
Wis well in the immediate vicinity o
the Fulton, came in Friday night and il
rated at about 80 barrel well.
On Tuesday last another joint session
of the Commissioners of Wood and Lu-
cas- was held at Toledo for the purpos,
of reaching further understanding il
regard to laying gas mains across tn
Maumee bridge at this point. The reso
, luton adopted by the joint board a
, Bowling Green last Thursday, givin
) authority to the gas company to eros
the bridge, was ratified with few ad
ditional specifications added. The ga
company is given the right to lay tel
, inch wrought iron gas main on the up
, per and outside of the bridge, to be sup
ported on the piers by stirrups attached
to the bridge. The consideration fo
this privilege is $lS per year to eacl
county. This appears on the surface t
= be good arrangement for all con
cerncd. Another pipe, stirruped to tn
lower side of the bridge would add t
the anchorage in case of cyclone. TIL
gas company eXpec' to get their pipe
laid into Toledo by the latter part @
April.
Union or Churches. Walnu
Street Church of this place have formed
, union with the Maunee Presbyterian
Church,and unite in II communion pasloi
ate, having called Rev. w. +, Knight, {
Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati
, as pastor. Mr.. Knight will be in M.um,
I next Sabbath, consequently there will
r no services mt the Walnut Street Churcl
on that date.